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Author(s):Oasis/Community IMPACT
Title:College access: From the inside out
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Date:2006
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Short Description:Examines barriers to college access from the perspective of the students themselves.
Annotation:Written by students in East Nashville, TN this report examines barriers to college access from the perspective of the students themselves. Barriers identified include being first generation college students, lack of guidance counseling in high school, and income barriers.
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College Access
Counseling/Guidance
Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs
First Generation College Students
High School
Low-Income Students
Minority/Race/Ethnicity
Preparation/College Readiness

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Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Citizenship now! Information for undocumented students
A portrait of low-income young adults in education
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
The Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network Evaluation Toolkit
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
GetMeToCollege.org (How to prepare, pay for, and succeed in college for first-generation college students)
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Suspended education: Urban middle schools in crisis
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Academic competitiveness and national SMART grant programs: First-year lessons learned
College planning for undocumented students
Untapped potential: Fulfilling the promise of Big Brother Big Sisters and the bigs and littles they represent
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
Affordability and transfer: Critical to increasing Baccalaureate degree completion
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
The differential impact of wealth vs. income in the college-going process
Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process
Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Young children of immigrants and the path to educational success: Key themes from an Urban Institute roundtable
How college pricing undermines financial aid
Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education
Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Education and the economy: Boosting the nation's economy by improving high school graduation rates among students of color and native students
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
Gender inequalities in education
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
The role of mentoring in college access and success
Lumina Foundation Focus: Un nuevo dia: As Latino population grows, so must college attainment
Family literacy: A valuable gateway to postsecondary education
National Coalition for College Completion
GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Service members in school: Military veterans' experiences using the post-9/11 GI Bill and pursuing postsecondary education
Cohort default rate resources
Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX
Central Indiana Talent Alliance
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
How to support college-bound undocumented students: Advice for parents
Scholarships for students regardless of immigration status: 2009-2010
GetMeToCollege.org: For undocumented students
The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma
Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates
Enhancing tax credits to encourage saving for higher education: Advancing the American opportunity tax credit and reforming the saver's credit
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
Seeking assistance: Who gets financial aid at California community colleges?
Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Postsecondary success
After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)
Afterschool Alliance
Engaging older youth: Program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out-of-school time
Untapped potential: Early labor market outcomes of dropouts and graduates from Philadelphia's public schools
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students
Eight components of college and career readiness counseling
The state of preschool 2009: State preschool yearbook
Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies
Promising practices: What works in the midwest: A report from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program
How youth plan to fund college
Improving access to higher education by promoting saving
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
For this place, for these people: An exploration of best practices among charter schools serving native students
Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house
The stealth inequities of school funding: How state and local school finance systems perpetuate inequitable school spending
College is affordable: A pilot study
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling: Elementary school counselor's guide
Aid and innovation: How federal financial aid policy impacts student success and how states can respond
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
The urgency of now: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Summer snapshot: Exploring the impact of higher achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on summer learning
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Double jeopardy: How third-grade reading skills and poverty influence high school graduation
Afterzone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's citywide after-school system
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
The distribution of grants and scholarships by race
Twenty-first Century Scholars Indiana college assistance and incentives resource book
Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges
Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Caught in the crisis: Students of color and native students in U.S. high schools
Cohort default rates in context
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
State policy profiles for completion by design
The economic value of opportunity youth
Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid
Lumina Foundation focus: Dreams detoured: Rising college costs alter plans and threaten futures
Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions
Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Financial access: What it is, what it isn't, and how to educate people about it
Minority student achievement network
Knowledge is power program
The Princeton Review
U Links
College Board Calculators
Sallie Mae financial aid calculators
General financial aid resources
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
Tuition discounting: Not just a private college practice
Closing the college participation gap: A national summary
Minority teacher/special education services scholarship
Bridge Partnership
College Goal Sunday
College guidance
Internet inequalities: Financial aid, the internet, and low-income students
Merit aid and college access
Institutional grants and baccalaureate degree attainment
Scholarship Help
College planning center
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families
Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)
Grants for students: What they do, why they work
Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated
A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance
With diploma in hand: Hispanic high school seniors talk about their future
Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
What students pay for college: Changes in net price of college attendance between 1992-93 and 1999-2000
NCHEMS information center
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues
Lumina Foundation for Education
How Latino students pay for college: Patterns of financial aid in 2003-04
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
Just and efficient college finance
Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states
Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
The role of finances in the persistence process.: A structural model
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
Capturing the college potential of students from underserved populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
How do educators’ cultural belief systems affect underserved students’ pursuit of postsecondary education
Debt burden: Repaying student debt
The expectations gap: A 50 state review of high school graduation requirements
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states
Paying for college: The rising cost of higher education
Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments
Financial aid for Native American students
Trip to college
A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization
Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward
Campus-based student financial aid programs under the higher education act
The Princeton Review and Hispanic Scholarship Fund college admissions roadmap (Spanish Version)
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Proven benefits of early childhood interventions
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies
Back to school: Federal student aid policy and adult college enrollment
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana
Developing your vision while attending college
Education a Tu Alcance (Spanish Version)
Fund Your Future: Counselors' Guide
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
Addressing the needs of adult learners
Adventures in Education - High School (English and Spanish Versions)
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Price isn't the only consideration: Look beyond the cost side of the equation
Getting ready for college: Advising high school students with learning disabilities
The College Dream: A Guide for Parents
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
SoMD CAN Curriculum Guides
Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for careers in athletics
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Achievement gaps: An examination of differences in student achievement and growth
School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
The progress of education reform: Closing the achievement gap
Engaging students, challenging the odds
Cómo pagar por sus estudios universitarios (Financial aid guide)
Student African American Brotherhood
Financial aid FAQ (frequently asked questions)
Financial aid glossary: Some terms you may enounter on the road
Scholarship guide
Frequently asked questions
How do I pay for college?
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges
Top 50 Colleges for African Americans
High school dropout: A quick stats fact sheet
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
Low-income students and college success: More than money
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Indiana's guide to paying for college
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
Their fair share: How Texas-sized gaps in teacher quality shortchange low-income and minority students
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Community college fast facts
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
How far behind in math and reading are English Language Learners?
No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006
National and state data
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
The status of Latinos/as in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
What happens to high school dropouts who reenroll?
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
YouthBuild USA
Apply to succeed: Ensuring community college students benefit from need-based financial aid
Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007
Urban school counseling: Implications for practice and training
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Korean American Scholarship Foundation
Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program
Morris K. Udall Scholarship
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Grants for Individuals: Minorities
Development Fund for Black Students in Science and Technology Scholarships
Hispanic College Fund
Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)
Opening doors to postsecondary education and training: Planning for life after high school
Do Perceptions Matter Regarding the Costs and Benefits of a Post-Secondary Education?
Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?
“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research
A new kind of student aid: Creating, implementing and assessing the Millennium Access Bursaries
Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007
Creating a college-going culture for English-language learners
Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap
Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public schools: A focus on students with disabilities
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
Re-imagining community colleges in the twenty-first century
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
Does money matter? II
Deciding about post-secondary education: Hearing the voices of non-attendees
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Growing pains: Scaling up the nation's best charter schools
Access and persistence: Fall 2009
This school works for me: Creating choices to boost student achievement: A guide for America's leaders
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Joining the conversation about educating our poorest children: Emerging leadership roles for school counselors in high-poverty schools
Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
A descriptive study of urban school counseling
Advocacy as a critical role for urban school counselors: Working toward equity and social justice
Indiana Graduation Plan Statute
Think college? Me? Now?
Facts for education advocates: School counseling, access and persistence
The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Noncognitive assessment and college success: The case of the Gates Millennium Scholars
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
Cities in crisis 2009: Closing the graduation gap: Educational and economic conditions in America's largest cities
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs
New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design
IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle
Projecting the economic benefits of reducing high school dropout rates in America's 45 largest metropolitan areas
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Academic outcomes of high risk students
High school course-taking patterns for English Language Learners: A case study from California
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature

 

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